You continue. You need to complete the casting of the spell to remove the effect of magical paralysis from your roommate's body.

You purposefully continue the magical ritual.

Your goal must be achieved, regardless of possible... difficulties.

Every spoken word and every gesture causes pain in your body.

As you make ritual gestures and touch the body of the spell object, you notice that your own blood begins to flow from the skin pores on your palms.

Having suppressed the wave of horror, you continue to pronounce the words of the spell...

Patrick's body reacts to your actions in a rather frightening way.

His body begins to shake in convulsions.

The blood from the small wounds you inflicted with the knife flows more and more heavily.

Blood also begins to flow from Patrick's eyes...

Alfred, who saw all this, began to cry out of fear and hid under the blanket...

Minute by minute you continue to perform the elements of this terrible magical ritual.

Your eyes stare into the book, concentrating on each symbol.

In addition to the headache, you begin to feel something like dizziness and pain in the heart area.

These are fragmentary stabbing pain sensations that occur every time you finish reading a phrase from a book.

More and more blood leaks from the skin pores on your palms.

However, there is an important nuance: drops of blood do not stain the book. These drops of blood hang in the air like flying insects.

Also the blood flowing from Patrick's body: drops of his blood hang in the air and form something like a strange sphere.

A bloody sphere the size of an ordinary human's head.

A sphere of blood that hovered in the air above Patrick's convulsing body (at a distance of approximately one meter).

You almost pass out as drops of your blood rush towards this bloody sphere.

With the last of your strength, you pronounce the final words of the spell.

You see how drops of your own blood connect with the bloody sphere.

Flash of crimson glow.

The blood sphere disappeared.

You fall to your knees.

Your heavy breathing and fading pain in your body indicate that this magical ritual turned out to be extremely difficult. You almost lost consciousness. And perhaps something much worse could happen if you tried to interrupt the spell...

You hear Alfred's trembling voice: “This... This is incredible! You did it, Jorin!”

You look up at the place where Patrick's immobilized body lay.

You see how he... rises to his feet!

Patrick is staggering badly, the skin of his face covered in dried blood (as are his wrists and his chest).

But he can clearly move.

The effect of magical paralysis has been eliminated!

You sigh in relief and rise to your feet.

Patrick's eyes look straight into your face with some strange expression...

It's like he's expecting something from you.

This look even makes you somehow... uncomfortable.

You say slowly, “I think you should wash your face... Your face is a little messy, Patrick... And then you should go to bed.”

Patrick's brown eyes gaze straight into your face.

After finishing your sentence, he says in a strange monotone voice: “The master’s order is clear. To wash. To sleep."

Patrick then goes to his nightstand, located next to his bed.

He quickly finds some container inside the nightstand.

This is a small bottle of liquid.

Patrick opens the bottle and pours the liquid onto his face, rubbing his face and wiping away the dried blood.

Strong smell of ****...

Judging by what happens, it was the same bottle of pepper schnapps that Patrick had previously searched for unsuccessfully.

Now all the liquid that was in this bottle is used for... washing his face!

You watch his actions in shock. After cleansing his face of dried blood, he lies down on his bed and covers himself with a blanket, turning to the wall.

You think: “What the fuck?!” Use **** to wash face?! And Patrick does this?! This is some kind of absurdity... There is clearly something wrong with him..."

Alfred, like you, watched Patrick's actions with alarm.

Alfred says in a fearful whisper: “Something strange seems to be happening to him... We probably have a new problem, Jorin...”

You answer wearily: “I see... But I managed to eliminate the magical paralysis. This is the main thing. Tomorrow we will try to understand the essence of our new problem. We need to sleep now."

You lie down in bed and soon you fall asleep.